Vector Magic

Judging by the 11,000 bookmarks on Del.cio.us and the 3,000 diggs on Digg, the brand-new bitmap-to-vector service from Stanford got off to a good start. The professionals are impressed, too.

Me? I’ve done some auto-tracing in Inkscape, which does a good enough job for my needs. Still, I’ve just put a number of graphics through Vector Magic that I had sitting around from many years ago: ink-on paper line art of mine that I scanned and reduced to aliased gifs way back in time. Vector Magic did really well on them. Here’s a side by side comparison.